Instead of considering what assignments and tasks they must accomplish, they set aside time for the people they want to engage first, making sure no one important to them goes too long without a conversation. By maintaining a list of relationships that matter and by continually adding to and culling this inventory, no one important gets forgotten

Essentially, leaders who organize themselves relationally replace to-dos or tasks with people. Before deciding what tasks and meetings must get done, they focus on what people they need to engage and what relationships they want to develop.